6. When Paramount passed Ruthless Women over to the MPAA for the scores board, they attempted to slap the teenager comedy with an R score, if you’ll imagine it. And the studio needed to combat again to safeguard that the supposed target audience for the film may in reality travel out and notice it.
“Even in the PG-13 movie, we had to take a lot of things out,” Fey informed Selection in 2018. “I remember thinking, If this was a movie about a boys’ school, ‘Is your cherry popped?’ wouldn’t have to come out.” That form was once changed with the a lot tamer “Is your muffin buttered?” No longer the whole thing was once a concession at the filmmakers’ finish, then again.
“The line in the sand that I drew was the joke about the wide-set vagina,” Waters told Vulture. “The ratings board said, ‘We can’t give you a PG-13 unless you cut that line.’ We ended up playing the card that the ratings board was sexist, because Anchorman had just come out, and Ron Burgundy had an erection in one scene, and that was PG-13. We told them, ‘You’re only saying this because it’s a girl, and she’s talking about a part of her anatomy. There’s no sexual context whatsoever, and to say this is restrictive to an audience of girls is demeaning to all women.’ And they eventually had to back down.”